Oh Shoot

Just finished Tony Hillerman's Coyote Waits and my first Sue Grafton ever, started with "C" instead of "A". Half through Cormac's The Crossing, beyond terrific of course, and will do Cities of the Plain next to finish the Border Trilogy. Surely he'll get the Nobel in the next year or two or there ain't no justice -- just hope he's still with us to receive it. - OS

Well, hmm. Maybe 3%.

Write it down in big letters on a piece of paper, take a picture with paper and receiver or wherever the number is now, maybe photograph and write down any other identifying strikes and their locations -- then you and a witness paste the pics on a statement that everything on the paper and the rifle are the same, and get it notarized that you both swear so. Sounds good, eh? Would show good intent anyway. Hell, it's not like it's a heater you're gonna stick up a stop 'n rob with, or off a gang rival and dump it -- I wouldn't worry. This is however most certainly NOT legal advice. - OS

Well then by God it won't be all bad! - OS

Man oh man, are you gonna love it here or what? - OS

Could a mod please consolidate all these so we have the single longest thread in the history of TGO? - OS

Yeah, it's got all that knock down power and all. .45 is better though, you only have to get close, shock wave alone is enough. - OS

Well, I don't claim any of the steel case is gonna be a perfectly reliable out of close tolerance gun as copper. After all, ARs ain't sloppy Aks. But most folks can run it with no probs or very widely spaced one. I've got 2 Mini14s that seem to eat anything, but even there I've had two stuck cases, months apart. Both were polymer steel, too, even though I shoot a good deal of the old lacquer stuff through them too (which of course is supposed to be death knell stuff). Both cases looked perfectly normal. Go figger. Course, with a mini, you just have to tap on the charging handle with something that doesn't chew it up to free them, or give 'em the ole Garand Stomp. Just got an AR recently (the SW Sport) and test run was 200+ rounds, in which I started with brass, then poly steel, then lacquer steel, then back to brass. No worries. And I didn't clean chamber/bore before letting it rip either, just made sure CLP was spitting off the bolt. The more typical experience is ala Rgaper and LumberJack in this thread. Hell, not just everyone that does Three Gun and whatnot could even afford to do it as much as they do without the Russian stuff. - OS

Real dearth of places. Think there's a private club in Gburg. Otherwise, there's an indoor range only in Sevierville, very nice place and folks everybody says. Website states "You may shoot standard pistol calibers, shotgun, 22 rimfire and pistol caliber carbines". http://www.sevierindoorrange.com/ Unless something has changed, would be significant drive to anywhere else from that area AFAIK. - OS

Garufa will hopefully chime in, he has a nice one with Accutrigger, beautiful thumbhole stock, fat barrel, scope, came bundled that way. All of them are more expensive than the 10/22, and all of them (at least the ones with Accutrigger) will outshoot it out of the box too. Then again, difference is a couple/three inches at 50 yards, and the Ruger will still hit a tin can pretty reliably at 125 yards (with a scope)., So just depends on your expectations. Drawback: no let er rip rapid shooting with 25 round mag like the 10/22. - OS

Thanks for that from a chemist. Seems that plastic fantastic would be best way to go, what with perhaps having to move it around, overall weight, etc. I wouldn't be storing anything that would deserve glass, since I quit drinking years ago. Then again, maybe I should throw in a couple cases of various good bourbons -- if it all should go to a certain circle of hell, might just decide to drink my way on out! - OS

Basic birch stocked carbine is generally pert close to $199.9999. Sometimes cheaper on sale, sometimes slightly gouged to $210. Don't really expect "bluing" any more. It's a "powder coat" (paint). Polymer trigger housing, mag release, etc. Still shoots same, though. - OS

Sure had to look that one up. Congrats! - OS

We've been rewarding failure and penalizing success for a long long time now. It's become generational. Welfare Recipient has become the profession below blue collar. You know that there's a recent renewed push from O's admin for stations to air more EBT and WIC public service ad, right? Just in time for the election, "please double check and see if you qualify for what I can give you". Have you ever seen the official Food Stamp/WIC sites for promotional materials that you pay for, both the food AND the adverts? http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/outreach/radio/default.htm http://snap.ntis.gov/ there are more, somewhere, too... - OS

Great score. Love the Remmy pumps. I've got an old 121, my first gun, under the tree on my 12th Christmas. Garufa has one too, with a nice finish still, no less. I've thought about getting a new 572 'cause they're so sweet, still nicely blued with real walnut and all, too. Congrats! - OS

That's about the best distilling can do, any higher and it goes down to about that when it's opened even if it were theoretical pure 200 out of the lab, sucks water vapor out of the air basically. Just like 151 and higher sucks the moisture right out of your throat on the way down, if you ever try it neat. Something about altitude too, seems you can get it to about 195 either at Death Valley or Mt. Everest, I forget which way it goes. - OS edit: have we asked, though, will plastic bottles survive "forever" with booze in them and/or not leach out and kill you (at least any quicker than the rotgut I'd likely stock that's in them)? Are they PET plastic without BHA?

Don't fight the Force. Unless you want some higher end tack driver, get a 10/22 and shoot it for a couple or three generations. Stay away from Rem Golden Bullet and all will be well. - OS

In fairness, the NEOS is a groovy pistola, and this mysterious glitch is rare, seemingly much more rare than a Kahr glitch for example. One of it's best attributes is that it comes apart and re-assembles easily with no tools, a prime selling point for me. And eats absolutely anything, have never had one failure to feed/eject -- and, they make an uber groovy rifle kit for it, too. I think the larger gripe is Beretta's policy; it may be the only mainstream big firearms maker that won't pay for shipping the first time around on a prob, warranty or not. - OS

Nice job on a great knife, but after my years of working TN football, I get mildly nauseous if I can see Neyland Stadium, and a slight twinge just seeing orange. - OS

And you tuck it? That big ole black clip is rather a dead giveaway in a NPE, no? - OS

I know, but called up a sudden twisted vision of trucker you as being "pregnant, breastfeeding, or non-breastfeeding postpartum"! - OS

Had exactly the same prob. Exactly. Like the trigger bottom assembly is falling off the sear or something down in there, light click, no boom. Bet if you let go of the trigger after that, then it fires, right? And here's something else weird, I'll bet you can fire it as fast as you can without the problem surfacing. But deliberate fire with pauses in between is when it does it. I thought it was out of battery safety at first, that slide wasn't fully closing, but it wasn't that. Or that something was loose in trigger bar span. But no. Here's the bad news: Unless your dealer will handle it for you for nada (which Academy won't, where I bought mine), you have to pay shipping to Beretta, even on brand new gun. And you have to send it a "service center", our regional one is a sports store in 'Bama. AND, the guy there says they don't work on NEOS, and just ship it on up to MD. Although it will come back from the place in 'Bama, the whole thing of course just taking that much longer. (http://www.berettasu...vicecenters.htm) So I did all that, and it came back in about a month with a list of what was done, like whole new slide!, new trigger bar, some other things. But had same prob. So called Beretta, trying to be nice and calm which took some rather superhuman effort btw, and they issued call tag to send it directly to them in MD. Took about 5 weeks this time, came back with simple notation "adjusted trigger bar". And it's been fine ever since. At least as fine as that trigger is gonna get, which is pretty clunky compared to a Ruger MK or Browning. That was all maybe close to a year ago now, have run at least a couple thousand through it since, maybe three, been fine. Apparently, after haunting many forums during the whole ordeal, a very small % of these NEOS have had this prob, and looks like you may be in the same 2% or so as I was. Worst thing is, I really don't know exactly what the damn prob WAS with the thing, and I don't think anyone else does either. All the "fixes" I've seen opined online, aren't. - OS

That's kind of a funny statement, ya know.

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No but I've eaten lots of carp. quick recipe (no not the board joke): Best to use 3 pounders or less if possible (because of the fine network of bones). Fillet and skin, cut out belly. Run the fillets through meat grinder a time or two, this minces up the fine network of bones left in the fillets. Then make "carp cakes" same as you would with salmon patties, mix with chopped onion, bell pepper, whatever you like, use an egg in there to help hold together. Form the patties, dust with corn meal or flour and fry in hot oil. Delicious. The "muddy taste" is mostly fish legend, certainly if it exists it's in the fatter belly meat only...I've eaten them out of cold non muddy moving water from Melton Hill and from mud bottomed sluggish water from Watts Bar, and they taste the same. Discovered this during a 4 month camping stint on Melton Hill Lake in my youth, when I didn't have a boat and couldn't catch much from the bank except endless carp. - OS